Fellow monks,

In my "home node", I can see a list of my writeups sorted by date and with the reputation of each one listed. I sometimes lack a number that specifies the amount of replies to each writeup.

Say that yesterday I made 10 writeups - some original and some as replies. I want, today, to know which ones got replies. This seldom happens with new posts, but one can reply a few dozen questions/discussions each day.

I figure it shouldn't be very hard to add, the replies are nested so it's trivial to know the amount of children a node has. What do you think ?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Seeing the # of replies to writeups
by ghenry (Vicar) on May 02, 2005 at 09:54 UTC

    I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that this is already in place in your user settings, you just need to tick the box to enable it.

    /msg me when there's a reply to one of my posts

    (in Miscellaneous.)

    HTH.

    Update: I am wrong. You will get a message when one of your posts is replied to, but there is no history of the replies to your nodes. Sorry for the misleading reply.

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Re: Seeing the # of replies to writeups
by Tanktalus (Canon) on May 02, 2005 at 14:29 UTC

    The last time I saw this come up (that I recall) was here. The suggestion then was to become a pmdevil and write the patch yourself. I think the suggestion remains valid here, too.

    In the thread above, I followed that advice, and wrote the patch. The code aspect for that was easier: all the information was already stored in the node data. This request is a bit more than that - you would need to scan the database for each node you're looking at. I don't know the exact structure of the database, but if "parentnode" isn't indexed (which it probably is), this could be quite expensive. Someone who is a bit more familiar with the underlying database would have to tell you that.

    Then, of course, is after you figure out what to do, is to convince The Powers That Be to actually apply your patch. If you're going to affect the performance of the system, I'll bet they say no. Especially as you can elect to get messages for each reply, and delete those messages as you are finished with them.

    If it does not affect performance at all, they may decide that they're getting something for (almost) nothing, and apply it.

    Here endeth the advice.

    Personally, I'm ambivalent about it. Mostly because I get those response messages. It would be nice, however, if I got emails about responses to responses (i.e., a thread I'm originator to is active). Well, sometimes it would be nice. Other times it would be annoying. :-)

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Re: Seeing the # of replies to writeups
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 02, 2005 at 16:24 UTC
    It might be a useful patch to Super Search to have another radio box next to "Match authors" that would be "Replies to authors".
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      I've long wanted to add sections for attributes of "In reply to" and "In thread" that would include author, substrings (in title, in body), date, etc. It is just a matter of someone getting the round to-its (and/or this making it to the top of their list).

      - tye        

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